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Manual installations of FreePBX is considered an EXPERTS ONLY exercise. This method of installation is enough to get CORE
functionality of FreePBX. Non-commercial modules may not function as expected or detailed in the Wiki's. Certain modules and
features may require additional software to be installed and configured on the server.
Install Centos 7
**** COMMERCIAL MODULES CANNOT BE INSTALLED ON THIS OS ****
Install Centos 7
Initial System Setup
Disable selinux
Update Your System
Install Additional Required Dependencies
Install Legacy Pear requirements
Firewalld Basic Configuration
Enable and Start MariaDB
Enable and Start Apache
Install Dependencies for Google Voice (if required)
Install iksemel
Add the Asterisk User
Install and Configure Asterisk
Download Asterisk source files.
Compile and install DAHDI
Compile and install pjproject
Compile and Install jansson
Compile and install Asterisk
Install Asterisk Soundfiles.
Set Asterisk ownership permissions.
Install and Configure FreePBX
A few small modifications to Apache.
Download and install FreePBX.
That's it!
Automatic Startup
You MUST disable selinux. selinux can cause strange behavior during the install
Disable selinux
reboot, and verify the selinux status by running 'sestatus'. It should say:
SELinux status: disabled
yum -y update
yum -y groupinstall core base "Development Tools"
You must open port 80 so that you can access the administration interface
You must have MariaDB running for freepbx to operate normally. It must start automatically, and be running continuously.
Now that our MariaDB database is running, we want to run a simple security script that will remove some dangerous defaults and lock down
access to our database system a little bit
mysql_secure_installation
The prompt will ask you for your current root password. Since you just installed MySQL, you most likely wont have one, so leave it blank by
pressing enter. Then the prompt will ask you if you want to set a root password. Do not set a root password. We secure the database
automatically, as part of the install script. Apart from that you can chose yes for the rest. This will remove some sample users and databases,
disable remote root logins, and load these new rules so that MySQL immediately respects the changes we have made.
FreePBX uses the Apache web server, so this must be started and running.
Install iksemel
cd /usr/src
wget https://iksemel.googlecode.com/files/iksemel-1.4.tar.gz
tar xf iksemel-*.tar.gz
rm -f iksemel-1.4.tar.gz
cd iksemel-*
./configure
make
make install
If you don't have any physical PSTN hardware attached to this machine, you don't need to install DAHDI (For example, a T1 or E1 card,
or a USB device). Most smaller setups will not have DAHDI hardware, and this step can be safely skipped.
cd /usr/src
tar xvfz dahdi-linux-complete-current.tar.gz
tar xvfz libpri-current.tar.gz
rm -f dahdi-linux-complete-current.tar.gz libpri-current.tar.gz
cd dahdi-linux-complete-*
make all
make install
make config
cd /usr/src/libpri-*
make
make install
cd /usr/src
tar -xjvf pjproject-2.4.tar.bz2
rm -f pjproject-2.4.tar.bz2
cd pjproject-2.4
CFLAGS='-DPJ_HAS_IPV6=1' ./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-shared
--disable-sound\
--disable-resample --disable-video --disable-opencore-amr
--libdir=/usr/lib64
make dep
make
make install
BUG:
Some versions of Asterisk will crash with a missing ari.conf https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-27026
You may wish to "mkdir -p /etc/asterisk && touch /etc/asterisk/ari.conf" after compiling Asterisk
cd /usr/src
tar xvfz asterisk-13-current.tar.gz
rm -f asterisk-13-current.tar.gz
cd asterisk-*
contrib/scripts/install_prereq install
./configure --libdir=/usr/lib64
contrib/scripts/get_mp3_source.sh
make menuselect
You will be prompted at the point to pick which modules to build. Most of them will already be enabled, but if you want to have MP3 support (eg,
for Music on Hold), you need to manually turn on 'format_mp3' on the first page.
cd /var/lib/asterisk/sounds
wget
http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/sounds/asterisk-core-sounds-en
-wav-current.tar.gz
wget
http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/sounds/asterisk-extra-sounds-e
n-wav-current.tar.gz
tar xvf asterisk-core-sounds-en-wav-current.tar.gz
rm -f asterisk-core-sounds-en-wav-current.tar.gz
tar xfz asterisk-extra-sounds-en-wav-current.tar.gz
rm -f asterisk-extra-sounds-en-wav-current.tar.gz
# Wideband Audio download
wget
http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/sounds/asterisk-core-sounds-en
-g722-current.tar.gz
wget
http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/sounds/asterisk-extra-sounds-e
n-g722-current.tar.gz
tar xfz asterisk-extra-sounds-en-g722-current.tar.gz
rm -f asterisk-extra-sounds-en-g722-current.tar.gz
tar xfz asterisk-core-sounds-en-g722-current.tar.gz
rm -f asterisk-core-sounds-en-g722-current.tar.gz
cd /usr/src
wget
http://mirror.freepbx.org/modules/packages/freepbx/freepbx-13.0-latest.tgz
tar xfz freepbx-13.0-latest.tgz
rm -f freepbx-13.0-latest.tgz
cd freepbx
./start_asterisk start
./install -n
That's it!
You can now start using FreePBX. Open up your web browser and connect to the IP address or hostname of your new FreePBX server. You will
see the Admin setup page, which is where you set your 'admin' account password, and configure an email address to receive update
notifications.
Automatic Startup
Please note you need to set up FreePBX to start asterisk (and it's associated services) on bootup. You can view an example systemd startup
script here.